Obituary:  Russell Coffey BROWN, 31 Oct 1990
Source:  Staunton News Leader, November 1, 1990
Contributor:  Oscar Nuckols <onuckols@cfw.com>
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  STUARTS DRAFT -- Mrs. Russell Coffey Brown, 86, of Route 2, 
Box 452, died Wednesday afternoon, (Oct. 31, 1990), at her home.
  She was born April 1, 1904 in Amherst County, a daughter of 
Frank A. and Minnie (Crawford) Coffey.
  Mrs. Brown, a homemaker, taught school in Narrow Passage, 
Fort Mountain and Mill Creek in Nelson County.  She also taught 
at Sherando, Stuarts Draft and Waynesboro and was a librarian at 
Stuarts Draft High School.  She helped organize and acted as 
president of the Three Ridge Garden Club in Stuarts Draft. She 
was a successful farmer and participated in many community and 
farm organizational activities. She was a life member of the 
Disabled American Veteran Ladies Auxiliary, Chapter No. 91 in 
Pinellas Park, Fla. She maintained her membership in Calvary 
United Methodist Church while she resided in Florida for the 
past 10 years where she attended the North Bay Community Church 
in Clearwater. 
  Survivors include her husband, Thomas W. Brown; a foster son, 
William Lewis Bradley of Stuarts Draft; two daughters, Mildred F. 
Cannon of Palmyra and Marian F. Weaver of Lexington; a brother, 
Vaden Coffey of Staunton; a sister, Mary Lou Layton of Montebello; 
two grandsons, John Stanley Weaver III of New London, Conn. and 
Donald Fauber Weaver of Waynesboro; a granddaughter, Patti C. 
Parsons of Tempe, Ariz.; four great- grandchildren, Jennifer and 
Diana Weaver, of New London, Conn. and Tracy and Amanda Weaver of 
Waynesboro; and a number of nieces and nephews.
  She was preceded in death by her first husband, Donald G. Fauber, 
in 1973.
  She was also preceded in death by a sister, Elva C. Coffey, and 
by two brothers, Frank Homer and Henry Morris Coffey.
  A service will be conducted 10 a.m. Saturday in Calvary United 
Methodist Church Cemetery by Dr. Floyd J. Wingfield.
  Honorary pallbearers will be James Fauber, Frank Nolen, Elmer 
Fitzgerald, Maxie Seaman, Clarence Ridgeway, Dr. John Forbes, Rudy 
Nagy, Clinton Martin, William A. Brooks, G.B. Huff, Earl Kindig and 
friends of Mrs. Brown.
  The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 Friday evening in 
McDow Funeral Home.
  Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of the Shenandoah, 
P.O. Box 922 Waynesboro, Va. 22980. 

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